Summary
Grégoire Lafay is a Data Engineering Team Lead with a Ph.D. in computer science and a decade of experience bridging research, product, and applied data science. He has led cross-functional teams to build ML-driven digital biomarkers and audio-based health diagnostics at Ad Scientiam, and co-founded an AI-powered sound app where he managed product, growth, and content. His work blends deep expertise in audio signal processing, auditory perception, and modern ML techniques—ranging from CNN-based cough detection and semi-supervised learning to facial landmark and VAD pipelines for mobile sensing. Now leading data engineering at Filigran, he focuses on operationalizing models and shaping technical roadmaps for scalable data products. Not only a researcher and product thinker, he brings hands-on engineering and user-informed product strategy to medical and creative audio domains. Based in Paris, he combines academic rigor with startup pragmatism to deliver impactful, data-driven solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science , Programmation informatique, Data Science , Programmation informatique at Le Wagon
PhD, Computer science (Computer audition), PhD, Computer science (Computer audition) at Centrale Nantes
Bachelor's degree, music and musicology, Bachelor's degree, music and musicology at Université Paris-Sorbonne
Master's degree, acoustics, audio signal processing, computer science applied to music, Master's degree, acoustics, audio signal processing, computer science applied to music at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, English